Song of Horror is an adventure developed by Protocol Games, released 31 October 2019 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Song of Horror is
Song of Horror is an adventure game developed by Protocol Games and released in 2019. It was published by Raiser Games. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4. It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The famed writer Sebastian P. Husher has gone missing, along with his entire family. Worried, his editor sent an assistant to his house in order to look for him – but he never came back… These disappearances spark a set of events that will soon reveal something dreadful: a nameless, dark entity known only as The Presence seems to be responsible.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Song of Horror holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored about average for its year.
What it launched against
Song of Horror launched on 31 October 2019, within three weeks of Death Stranding, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, The Outer Worlds and Disco Elysium. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Death Stranding, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, The Outer Worlds, Disco Elysium.
Official trailer
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